RFC5661 obsoletes NFS4ERR_STALE_STATEID in favour of NFS4ERR_BAD_STATEID. Note that because nfsd encodes the clientid boot time in the stateid, we can hit this error case in certain scenarios where the Linux client state management thread exits early, before it has finished recovering all state. Reported-by: Idan Kedar <idank@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c index d5d070fbeb35..dd32f3746e4d 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c @@ -3627,8 +3627,11 @@ static __be32 nfsd4_lookup_stateid(stateid_t *stateid, unsigned char typemask, return nfserr_bad_stateid; status = lookup_clientid(&stateid->si_opaque.so_clid, sessions, nn, &cl); - if (status == nfserr_stale_clientid) + if (status == nfserr_stale_clientid) { + if (sessions) + return nfserr_bad_stateid; return nfserr_stale_stateid; + } if (status) return status; *s = find_stateid_by_type(cl, stateid, typemask); -- 1.9.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html